REPORTING ON THE KO COMPETENCIES PROJECT

Matt Moore and Patrick Lambe developed a draft competency framework for knowledge organization professionals in support of the inaugural “Innovations in Knowledge Organization” conference held in Singapore in June 2015. With the support of ISKO we then tested this framework within the larger professional community through a global survey attracting almost 150 responses from knowledge organisation professionals and researchers around the world. In this session we discuss the findings of the survey, and the key development areas, gaps and development opportunities we identified. The findings will help those working on knowledge organisation roles identify gaps and self development opportunities, and it will help those working in KO teaching and research roles to identify useful areas of focus. We will also report on the planned next steps in this research project. We will then break out into workshop discussion to identify the implications for professionals working in knowledge organization.

About the SpeakersThis session is planned as a panel discussion with Matt Moore (Panviva), Prof Chris Khoo (NTU) and Dr Leong Mun Kew (ISS) and chaired by Patrick Lambe.

Matt MooreMatt Moore is Senior Consultant with Panviva in Australia and former Manager, Market Operations at PwC Australia. Matt has spent 15 years working in knowledge and information management, learning, marketing, sales operations and communications with organisations such as IBM, Oracle and the Australian Securities and Investment Commission. He lectures at the University of Technology Sydney, writes for Online Currents and is a former chair of the New South Wales Knowledge Management Forum. Matt joins the discussion by Webex link from Sydney.

Christopher KhooChris Khoo is an associate professor in the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication & Information, Division of Information Studies at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where he teaches courses in knowledge organisation, information architecture, data mining and Web-based information systems. He obtained his PhD at Syracuse University in 1997, his MSc in Library & Information Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1987, and a BA from Harvard University. He has also worked for several years as a science reference librarian, cataloger and online information searcher at the National University of Singapore Libraries. His main research interests are in knowledge organization, ontologies, automatic sentiment categorization, human categorization behavior, natural language processing, information extraction, multidocument summarization, and clinical decision support systems.

Mun-Kew LeongDr Mun-Kew Leong is Deputy Director of the Institute of Systems Science, National University of Singapore. He oversees the graduate programmes at NUS ISS. Prior to ISS, Mun-Kew was at the National Library Board Singapore (NLB) as CTO, Deputy CIO, and Director, Digital & Knowledge Infrastructure. As Deputy CIO, he started efforts in master data management, enterprise architecture and corporate governance of IT. Before NLB, Mun-Kew was Principal Scientist at the Institute for Infocomm Research and VP/CTO of an IT startup. He has published and patented and is an invited speaker in many talks. Mun-Kew received his PhD from Stanford University and has more than 25 years of R&D and commercial experience in IT.

Find the sessions and resources from the 14 March ISKO UK event "Organising information: roles, skills and training for the future" - at this page - scroll to the bottom of the page to find links to the slides and audio for each speaker.

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